Prime Minister De Wever Rejects Criticism of "Lax" Antwerp Drug Policy: "Low-Down Political Game"

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Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) refutes the notion that drug-related violence in Brussels is the result of a lax approach to cocaine supplies in Antwerp. Speaking in the House Committee on Home Affairs, he referred to it as "a base political game" and called the criticism a slap in the face to the people working hard on the ground.

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Bart De Wever took advantage of the parliamentary re-entry, in the House, to settle his accounts with those who insist on Antwerp's responsibility in the fight against drug trafficking.

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BELGA The House's Committee on the Interior was the scene on Wednesday of a weapons pass between the Prime Minister, and burgomaster of Antwerp in title, Bart De Wever (N-VA) and the PS on the background of violence linked to drug trafficking in Brussels. In recent weeks, while the capital was shaken by gunfire between rival gangs, the socialists called into question surveillance and control in the port of Antwerp, considered one of the gateways…

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Prime Minister Bart De Wever refutes the notion that the drug violence in Brussels is the result of a lax approach to cocaine supplies in Antwerp. "A low-down political game," he denounced.

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The Prime Minister was questioned in the House about the taskforce he said a year and a half ago that she had to fight against drug trafficking. The former mayor took the opportunity to reply to the socialists who denounced a laxism on the part of the Antwerp ministers. Obviously, the PS elected had reached a sensitive point. ...